The Path of a Criminologist

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geneviève Savard

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Word count: 1970

Choice count: 68

Section count: 45

Image count: 44

Error count: 13

Field Related Analysis:

Law/Paralegal-Technology : 37 matches (accident, act, arrest, arrested, attestation, case, charge, close, condition, contraband, crime, criminal, criminology, drugs, evidence, exhibit, guilty, hostage, House, Information, interrogation, law, minister, month, murder, police officer, possibility, Principal, recognizance, road, robbery, section, security, sentence, victim, weapon, young)

Police-Technology : 26 matches (arrest, crime, crime scene, criminal, evidence, exhibit, hostage, investigation, investigator, jail, law, charge, murder, guilty, police, police officer, prison, proofs, RCMP, right, robbery, suspect, terrorist, victim, weapon, injuries)

Computer Science : 23 matches (backup, call, choice, Class, close, closed, collaborate, system, data, emergency, file, interrogation, Invalid, open, path, physical, Section, security, sentence, station, supervise, supervisor, victim)

Target Structure:

retirement (7 matches)

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The Path of a Criminologist

By Bull-Doser [Public domain], from Wikimedia Commons

It all started like this.

It’s my last year in Criminology at Laval University. I am graduating in less than a month. I must make a choice for the rest of my life. I must choose which job I am going to do between RCMP and "Sûreté du Quebec".

Choice 1 : I choose the RCMP.

Choice 2 : I choose the “Sûreté du Québec”.

By Brian Dell [Public domain], from Wikimedia Commons

Scene 1.

I go at the RCMP school, Depot. I am graduating and now I will have to choose between returning in my own province, Quebec, go to another province in Canada, or take an extra course in the United States.

Choice 1 : I return to Quebec.

Choice 2 : I go to another province in Canada.

Choice 3 : I take an extra course in the United States.

Scene 2.

After years of service, I’m attending on an armed robbery. I go at the address giving and find out that my sister is involved. I now have the choice to take her to the police station or to let her go as I never seen her at the scene.

Choice 1 : I bring her to the police station.

Choice 2 : I let her go.

Scene 3.

I bring her to the police station. One of my colleague takes her in interrogation. I know that she’s able to lie subtly. I can let her in trouble or help her.

Choice 1 : I let her in trouble.

Choice 2 : I help her.

Scene 4.

I choose to let her in trouble. I think that she needs to learn from her mistake. She pleads guilty and go to jail for 10 years.

Choice 1 : Start again.

Scene 5.

I help her, so I change the exhibit by another one from a close file. Nobody realized it, my sister is found non-guilty and she’s back to a normal life.

Choice 1 : Start again.

Scene 6.

I let her go. I try to find others suspects and I remove all the evidence.

Choice 1 : The file is under investigation and hoping to find other evidence.

Choice 2 : We close the file.

Scene 7.

My team and I leave the file open because we never found the suspects. By the time, the years passed, and I quit my job after 25 years of service. I never heard about this file again.

Choice 1 : Start again.

Scene 8.

We closed the file because a lot of things bring us to believe that it’s a setup made by the victim. We never talk about this case again.

Choice 1 : Start again.

Scene 9.

I go work in another province in Canada, in the murders cases section. I need to go to a crime scene where there was a murder. When we arrived at the scene, there’s a guy.

Choice 1 : He is mentally sick.

Choice 2 : He is a terrorist.

Scene 10.

The criminal is mentally sick. When we arrived at the scene, he is armed in the house. As the main investigator, I decide to call the Emergency response team (ERT). They joined us at the scene. There are two possible scenarios.

Choice 1 : He dies.

Choice 2 : He stays alive.

Scene 11.

He killed himself with a weapon. We couldn’t do anything to help him.

Choice 1 : Start again.

Scene 12.

As a team, we succeed to convince him to go outside. I interview him and he confesses everything. He pleads guilty and became an informant for the police.

Choice 1 : Start again.

Scene 13.

When we arrive at the scene, we find out that we are dealing with a terrorist threatening to blow out everything. We call the bomb squad in backup.

Choice 1 : The terrorist blow out everything.

Choice 2 : The bomb squad arrives on time at the scene.

Scene 14.

The terrorist blow out everything. I am very traumatized about the situation. I consult, and I stop working.

Choice 1 : Start again.

Scene 15.

The Bomb squad arrived at the scene quickly. They get involved and arrest the suspect. The suspect reveals a lot of operations, as he is an undercover police officer. I inform my supervisor and he takes the file in charge.

Choice 1 : Start again.

Scene 16.

I take a specialized training with the American. The specialize training is Shriprider. This program involves members specially trained and cross designated to enforce laws in shared waterways on both sides of the border. I performed very well in class. I have to choose to stay in the United States or come back in Canada.

Choice 1 : Stay in the United States.

Choice 2 : Return to Canada.

Scene 17.

I decide to stay in the United States and become a Shiprider’s instructor. I teach to other people and assure their security and success. There are a lot of things could happened as being an instructor. I could teach the Shiprider course for numerous years without any problem, or while I teach, I hit a rock and make the boat sinks.

Choice 1 : I give the course without any problem.

Choice 2 : I hit a rock and make the boat sinks.

Scene 18.

After giving the Shiprider course for numerous years, I began a boat course and finish my life very wealthy.

Choice 1 : Start again.

Scene 19.

I hit a rock while I was teaching the course. The boat sink. Three members of my crew and I drowned. I couldn’t do anything to save us.

Choice 1 : Start again.

Scene 20.

All the job in links with this course have been attributed to me in Canada. I have a promotion. This promotion could be dangerous for my life or go very well.

Choice 1 : It’s dangerous.

Choice 2 : Everything went well.

Scene 21.

While I was working, I intercepted a boat. Passengers are armed, and they shot at us. My colleague and I die on the spot.

Choice 1 : Start again.

Scene 22.

I intercept a contraband boat with a big quantity of drugs at the border. To congratulate me, the "Primer" Minister of Canada and the president of the United States give me a medal.

Choice 1 : Start again.

By Orbitale [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons

Scene 23.

I go at the "Sûreté du Québec" and take my retirement after 30 years of service. I take my retirement while I’m investigating an important file. I’m supposed to enjoy fully my retirement, but I could continue to investigate the case secretly. I could also act as a mentor.

Choice 1 : I enjoy fully my retirement.

Choice 2 : I continue to investigate the case secretly, on the side.

Choice 3 : I act as a mentor for the follow up.

Scene 24.

I enjoy fully my retirement and I go on a road trip to North Carolina. I love this place since I’m young. Sometimes, I go by plane or by car. What should I use this time?

Choice 1 : Plane.

Choice 2 : Car.

Scene 25.

I go by plane, it’s faster. While I’m seated on the plane, a man takes suddenly a baby as a hostage. Maybe I should use my experiences to help the baby or let the plane crew in charge of the situation.

Choice 1 : I let the plane crew in charge of the situation.

Choice 2 : I use my experience to help the baby.

Scene 26.

I let the plane crew in charge of the situation, but no one is able to respond to the request of the man. He kills the baby.

Choice 1 : Start again.

Scene 27.

I use my experience to deal with this type of situation. I managed to resonate the man in question.

Choice 1 : Start again.

Scene 28.

I go by car. It’s a long ride, but I really like the road trip. The weather is not good, there’s fog and a lot of rain. I lost the control of my car and have a big accident. I’m injured. I could close my eyes and let me go away or I could use my strongest to survive.

Choice 1 : I close my eyes and let me go away.

Choice 2 : I use my strongest and try to survive.

Scene 29.

I’m very tired, so I close my eyes but never wake up again. (.

Choice 1 : Start again.

Scene 30.

My good physical condition of my very active life help me to be strong and fight for life. I’m recovering from my injuries very fast and enjoy my retirement until the old age catch me up.

Choice 1 : Start again.

Scene 31.

I continue to investigate secretly on the side and I find him guilty. However, all my information could not be good because I’m technically not in right to investigate. They could also be good. I need the attestation of the supreme courts.

Choice 1 : All of my evidences are invalid.

Choice 2 : My evidences are valid.

Scene 32.

All my information are invalid because the law has not been respected. I could give my information to the police or let the criminal go.

Choice 1 : I collaborate with the police.

Choice 2 : I let the criminal go.

Scene 33.

The criminal is free, and I have a lot of problems with the police.

Choice 1 : Start again.

Scene 34.

I have been interviewed by the police so they can pursue the investigation. The criminal is arrested.

Choice 1 : Start again.

Scene 35.

The evidences are available and publicly broadcast. There are two options. The criminal is arrest or the evidences are not strong enough.

Choice 1 : The criminal is arrest.

Choice 2 : The proofs are not strong enough.

Scene 36.

The criminal is arrest and I take my retirement for real now.

Choice 1 : Start again.

Scene 37.

The evidences are not strong enough. The guilty person goes outside the country and nobody finds him anymore.

Choice 1 : Start again.

Scene 38.

I act as a mentor in the investigation to make sure the take over would be good enough. Here, there’s possibility that the guilty person would be find or the officer distorts the data.

Choice 1 : We find the guilty person.

Choice 2 : The principal officer bluff the data.

Scene 39.

After a lot of interviews and hours of research, the guilty person is found. I could have some deserves or not.

Choice 1 : I have some deserves.

Choice 2 : All the deserves go to the main officer.

Scene 40.

The main officer that I supervise gets all the deserve and I didn’t get any recognizance.

Choice 1 : Start again.

Scene 41.

I got part of the deserves and I’m officially recognized by the "Sûreté du Québec". I continue to act as a mentor with the new officer to make sure the operations go well.

Choice 1 : Start again.

Scene 42.

The in charged officer of the investigation bluff all the data. He does everything he can to make me guilty. Now, I could go to jail for the rest of my life or be able to prove that he bluffs on everything.

Choice 1 : I go to jail for the rest of my life.

Choice 2 : I prove that he bluffs on everything.

Scene 43.

He manages to hack the system and I found guilty of life prison sentence.

Choice 1 : Start again.

Scene 44.

I succeed to prove that it’s a set up. The officer lost his job, and I got a promotion. (.

Choice 1 : Start again.

The End.